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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img / curl: When fetching
 Content-Size use GET instead of HEAD.
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To: Boris Schrijver <boris@pcextreme.nl>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, jcody@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: Wido Hollander <wido@pcextreme.nl>

08.12.2015 00:23, Boris Schrijver wrote:
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> It's is therefore better to use only the GET request method, and discard the
> body at the first call.

Nooooooo!  Please NOOOO!

Fetching a large file once might be too long already.
Fetching it twice is twice as long.  Oh well!..

Thanks,

/mjt